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Q-06: "Homes for All, Queensway" by NHDM
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Q-06: "Homes for All, Queensway" by NHDM
The expansive terrain of Queens has been a testing ground for ideals that are perhaps too wild for the tightly gridded island of Manhattan. Freed from the logics of maximum efficiency and density, Queens embraces all dreams and visions in a loose yet interconnected assemblage.
This souvenir catalogs these multifarious idealisms through the representation of selected form(at)s of homes and communities found in the contemporary Q-06 as well as in the area’s collective memories. The collection articulates more pronounced urban forms—from the halved Garden City of “Real Good Homes” to the winding private streets in Forest Hills, from a “tower in the park” of a once vehemently opposed NYCHA project turned vibrant NORC (Naturally Occurring Retirement Community) to the increasingly ubiquitous podium-tower shell of luxury interiors, to name a few. It simultaneously brings forward less readily visible spaces and new possibilities.
Below ground are the hidden spaces of basement living. In Queens alone, as of 2017, there are 135,688 illegally converted basement living units (and 904 in Q-06) that are largely inhabited by new immigrants and a low income population. Unnoticed yet extremely densely occupied, the sprawling underground city represents both the hopes and despairs of American dreams and the lack of affordable housing options for the less privileged in our city. The linear element of the souvenir—a new monument of the city—proposes to utilize the Queensway, an abandoned 3.5 mile long tract of public land, formerly traversed by the LIRR, as a site of affordable public housing and community amenities that flexibly responds to the local needs throughout the area and tackles the housing shortage.
The souvenir aims to instigate a consideration of the ways we inhabit the city together. It posits the possibility of a daringly visionary and transformative yet decidedly supportive architecture and urbanism that goes beyond the maintenance of the status quo.
The expansive terrain of Queens has been a testing ground for ideals that are perhaps too wild for the tightly gridded island of Manhattan. Freed from the logics of maximum efficiency and density, Queens embraces all dreams and visions in a loose yet interconnected assemblage.
This souvenir catalogs these multifarious idealisms through the representation of selected form(at)s of homes and communities found in the contemporary Q-06 as well as in the area’s collective memories. The collection articulates more pronounced urban forms—from the halved Garden City of “Real Good Homes” to the winding private streets in Forest Hills, from a “tower in the park” of a once vehemently opposed NYCHA project turned vibrant NORC (Naturally Occurring Retirement Community) to the increasingly ubiquitous podium-tower shell of luxury interiors, to name a few. It simultaneously brings forward less readily visible spaces and new possibilities.
Below ground are the hidden spaces of basement living. In Queens alone, as of 2017, there are 135,688 illegally converted basement living units (and 904 in Q-06) that are largely inhabited by new immigrants and a low income population. Unnoticed yet extremely densely occupied, the sprawling underground city represents both the hopes and despairs of American dreams and the lack of affordable housing options for the less privileged in our city. The linear element of the souvenir—a new monument of the city—proposes to utilize the Queensway, an abandoned 3.5 mile long tract of public land, formerly traversed by the LIRR, as a site of affordable public housing and community amenities that flexibly responds to the local needs throughout the area and tackles the housing shortage.
The souvenir aims to instigate a consideration of the ways we inhabit the city together. It posits the possibility of a daringly visionary and transformative yet decidedly supportive architecture and urbanism that goes beyond the maintenance of the status quo.
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